Each airline was judged on a number of data points: fatality records from the past 10 years, safety audit results from the International Air Transport Association, and whether or not the airline's origin country complies with the International Aviation Organization's eight-point safety parameter. Which airline came out on top? Qantas, which has held the No. 1 spot for three consecutive years. Ahead, the top 20 safest airlines of 2016 in alphabetical order: